Johann Christian Kestner (* August 28 1741 Döhren in Hannover , † May 24 1800 in Lüneburg ) was a German jurist and archivist , known mainly as the husband of "Werther's Lotte" Charlotte Buff .

As a young Hanoverian legation secretary from 1767 to 1773 the Supreme Court in Wetzlar worked, learned Kestner, Charlotte Buff, the daughter of the mayor at the local Teutonic know, and became engaged to her.The young Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1772 was also an intern at the Supreme Court in Wetzlar and was acquainted with both. He fell in love with the charming and lively 19-year-old "Lotte", as those had already been promised. This love and the suicide of a young lawyer-fellow with Kestner borrowed gun because of an unhappy love, formed the occasion and "raw material" for Goethe's famous letter-novel The Sorrows of Young Werther , published 1774th.The Lotte in his novel with features of the real Charlotte, for the reader, was also Albert in the novel characterization of her husband Kestner.After her marriage in 1773 nor in Wetzlar, the couple went to Hanover, where Kestner took up a position as Archivist and Vice-Hanoverian royal großbritannisch Councilor was.The couple Kestner had 12 children, the eldest son, George (* 1774) was Goethe's godchild. The family first lived in the Aegidienstraße, then at the Great Wall Street (now George Wall). Kestner died during a mission in Lüneburg, where his term grave is not obtained. The tomb of his wife Charlotte found in the garden cemetery in Hanover. It was developed by the Hanover Planning Director Oberhof Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves a son of Johann Christian Kestner and his wife Charlotte, née Buff, designed.

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As a young Hanoverian legation secretary from 1767 to 1773 the Supreme Court in Wetzlar worked, learned Kestner, Charlotte Buff, the daughter of the mayor at the local Teutonic know, and became engaged to her.The young Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1772 was also an intern at the Supreme Court in Wetzlar and was acquainted with both. He fell in love with the charming and lively 19-year-old "Lotte", as those had already been promised. This love and the suicide of a young lawyer-fellow with Kestner borrowed gun because of an unhappy love, formed the occasion and "raw material" for Goethe's famous letter-novel The Sorrows of Young Werther , published 1774th.The Lotte in his novel with features of the real Charlotte, for the reader, was also Albert in the novel characterization of her husband Kestner.After her marriage in 1773 nor in Wetzlar, the couple went to Hanover, where Kestner took up a position as Archivist and Vice-Hanoverian royal großbritannisch Councilor was.The couple Kestner had 12 children, the eldest son, George (* 1774) was Goethe's godchild. The family first lived in the Aegidienstraße, then at the Great Wall Street (now George Wall). Kestner died during a mission in Lüneburg, where his term grave is not obtained. The tomb of his wife Charlotte found in the garden cemetery in Hanover. It was developed by the Hanover Planning Director Oberhof Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves a son of Johann Christian Kestner and his wife Charlotte, née Buff, designed.